Originally Posted by Davy

Social networks need to go P2P. And they will. The question is if facebook will be able to make the transition (and sell the crappy datacenter again).
The cloud is big enough. You could reach anybody by connecting to the cloud.
The problem is that Facebook is the middle man who profits from your data.
Facebook is pretty obsolete, really.
Once somebody comes up with a P2P solution (and I personally know PhDs who work on this) then Facebook will die a quick death.